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vSphere 5.1 Hardening Guide **DRAFT** now available

Hello? Is this thing on?

A brief intro for those that don’t know me and my new role. My name is Mike Foley. I’m a Sr. Technical Marketing Manager, working for Charu Chaubal in VMware’s Technical Marketing group. My primary role is that of technical marketing support for security of the core vSphere platform. I come from RSA, where I was their virtualization evangelist/go-to guy for many years. My personal blog is at http://yelof.com and I’m on Twitter as @mikefoley.

I would like to announce the **draft** release of the vSphere 5.1 Security Hardening Guide. This initial draft release has taken the 5.0 guide and updated it for 5.1. What it does NOT contain at this time is a complete review of functionality around the new 5.1 SSO capabilities. We are working on those parts and hope to have an updated draft very soon.

We’d love to hear your feedback, good and bad, on the contents of the guide. I would encourage you to post your reply in the Security and Compliance Communities forum but if you have more sensitive concerns, send it to me at mfoley@vmware.com.

About Mike Foley

Mike Foley is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware. His primary focus is on security of the core platform, vSphere.
His primary goal is to help IT/VI Admins build more secure platforms that stand up to scrutiny from security teams with the least impact to IT Operations.
Mike is also the current author of the vSphere Security Configuration (formerly Hardening) Guide.
Previously, Mike was on the evangelist team at RSA where he concentrated on virtualization and cloud security and contributed as a member of the product architect team.
Mike has a personal blog at https://yelof.com and contributes to the VMware vSphere and Security blogs as well.
Follow him at @vSphereSecurity on Twitter